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The workshop as the work: white anti-racism organising in 1960s, 70s, and 80s US social movements
No full textThis thesis explores the rise of anti-racism workshops developed by white activists in various United States social movements from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. The shifting ideology of the black freedom movement in the late 1960s, from integration to Black Power, transformed white activists‘ place within racial justice struggles. While recent scholarship has begun to turn its attention towards whites‘ ongoing racial justice activities, one of the most radical and widespread of these efforts is consistently overlooked: anti-racism workshops. Increasingly prevalent from the late 1960s through to the diversity-trainings explosion of the 1990s, this thesis demonstrates that these workshops had their roots in the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation movements. White activists from these movements led these workshops in order to examine white racial domination and privilege within both leftist social movements and larger US society.
Analysing case studies from the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation/rights movements, this thesis explores the foundational assumptions of anti-racism workshops. It seeks to explain how and why these efforts sought to frame race and racism as issues of knowledge and consciousness and why such efforts constituted radical praxis. It is argued that early anti-racism workshops were pedagogical projects that sought to confront the racial ignorance that structured the lives of whites in the US, including progressives and their liberation movements. This thesis draws attention to the efficacy and power of these workshops in terms of their epistemological effects, in the transformations they brought about in whites‘ understanding, or awareness, of racial realities
An acoustical hypothesis for the spiral bubble nets of humpback whales and the implications for whale feeding
No full textTIM-4 is a critical EBOV receptor on peritoneal macrophages.
No full textA) TIM-4 surface expression. Matured bone marrow derived macrophages and pmacs from C57BL/6 Ifnar-/- mice were lifted from tissue culture plates, stained with directly conjugated F4/80 and CD11b mAb. Positively gated cells were analyzed for TIM-4 (grey histogram) or isotype control (white histogram) by flow cytometry. B) TIM-4 expression is required for robust rVSV/EBOV GP infection. C57BL/6 Ifnar-/- or Ifnar/Timd-4 -/- pmacs were infected with the indicated infectious units of rVSV/EBOV GP. Twenty-four hours following infection, cells were quantified for GFP expression by flow cytometry. C) Infection of BMDMs is not affected by the absence of TIM-4 expression. Bone marrow cells were isolated from C57BL/6 Ifnar-/- or Ifnar/Timd-4 -/- mice. Adherent cells were matured into macrophages by incubating for 6 days in the presence of 50ng/mL MCSF. Matured macrophages were infected with the indicated infectious units of rVSV/EBOV GP and number of infected cells were quantified by GFP expression at 24 hour following infection by flow cytometry. D) Pmacs were harvested from C57BL/6 Ifnar-/- or Ifnar/Timd-4 -/- mice and incubated with VLPs expressing EBOV GP and EBOV VP40 fused to beta lactamase. Virus/cell membrane fusion was subsequently quantified by loading cells with CCF2-AM, a β-lactam-containing fluorescent substrate, and analyzed on flow cytometry to determine the relative amount of cleaved and un-cleaved substrate. Data are shown as mean ± S.D. Statistics were calculated using Student’s t-test, *p<0.05.</p
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
No full textIn this interview with Louisiana native Margaret D. Bauer, author Tim Gautreaux discusses a quarter century of his fiction writing. Resisting simplistic labels of "Cajun" and "southern," Gautreaux's storytelling reveals an intimate understanding of southern Louisiana's white, working-class people and culture. Often drawn from his own background, Gautreaux's characters are shaped by a range of experiences, from working on steamboats and fighting in world wars, to struggling in the 1980s oil bust
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Ethical Awakenings: Stories of White Male Educators’ Commitment to Social Justice and the Interruption of Privilege
No full textThis study is an anti-racist counter-story of white male educators’ commitments to social justice and their attempts at interrupting privilege. The author uses a qualitative methodological approach to unite personal narrative essay and phenomenological interviewing to collate narratives around the exploration of whiteness and power. At the heart of the project is a deep interest in seeking an ethic that fosters a social justice praxis for educators by exposing the underlying structures of whiteness through “witness” testimony. Using Butler's (2005) theory of subject formation, the author advances a theory of social justice that focuses on relation.
The author makes active the context for tensions between his white male subjectivity and social justice praxis and then interweaves the narratives from participant interviews to elucidate how white subjectivity works with and against social justice in complex ways, especially within educational contexts. A close look is given to white educators’ experiences in communities of color and the connections between the participant narratives and the author’s own. The author highlights the significance of personal rupture, in which the self is exposed to new ontological, epistemological, and ethical possibilities at critical junctures on the life journey. A case is made for the curricular value of utilizing self-study – examples of which include personal narrative essays, autoethnography, and autobiographical approaches – in shaping students’ ethical commitments to responsibility towards others as well as potentially exposing fissures at the ontological horizon that might lead authentic personal and social changes. The author draws meaningful interpretations by discussing relevant themes shared among the personal narratives and identifies key experiences that led participants to new ways of understanding and relating to others, exemplifying ethical responsibility. By drawing connections between white subjectivity and ethical commitments to social justice, the author makes a case for the curricular value in considering new and creative ways of fostering student interaction with difference and how those interactions might draw students towards responsible action. Conclusions from the interpretations suggest the importance of relation as a key component of ethical responsibility, highlighting the significance of recognizing the self’s opacity as a form of social justice activism
An improved thick-film piezoelectric material by powder blending and enhanced processing parameters
No full textThis paper details improvements of the d33 coefficient for thick-film lead zirconate titanate (PZT) layers. In particular, the effect of blending ball and attritor milled powders has been investigated. Mathematical modeling of the film structure has produced initial experimental values for powder combination percentages. A range of paste formulations between 8:1 and 2:1 ball to attritor milled PZT powders by weight have been mixed into a screen-printable paste. Each paste contains 10% by weight of lead borosilicate glass and an appropriate quantity of solvent to formulate a screen printable thixotropic paste. A d33 of 63.5 pC/N was obtained with a combination of 4:1 ball milled to attritor milled powder by weight. The improved paste combines the high d33 values of ball and the consistency of attritor milled powder. The measured d33 coefficient was further improved to 131 pC/N by increasing the furnace firing pro-file to 100
The Evolution of R&D Networks
No full textDawid H, Hellmann T. The Evolution of R&D Networks. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 2014;105:158-172.We study the evolution of R&D networks in a Cournot model whererms may lower marginal costs due to bilateral R&D collaborations. Stochastically stable R&D networks exhibit the dominant group architecture, and, contrary to the existing literature, generically unique predictions about the size of the dominant group can be obtained. This size decreases monotonically with respect to the cost of link formation and there exists a lower bound on the size of the dominant group for non-empty networks. Stochastically stable networks are always inefficient and an increase in linking costs has a non-monotone effect on average industry profits
Tim Morse with two SC Swimmers (1971)
No full textA photograph of Tim Morse, a coach of the Springfield College Women's Swimming and Diving team, standing with two swimmers. The two swimmers are wearing a blue dresses and white blouses. The photograph is very blurry. This may have been taken at a podium ceremony that took place during a trip to the 1971 DGWS National Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Championships. See rg169-03-d-02-28-007 for the whole podium shot.This photograph is not in our collection, but exists only as a digital file. A copy of this file has been printed out and placed within the physical collection.
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